Monday, 24 June 2013

If anyone missed my lively guest spot on Martin Kelner's One On One show on Radio Leeds - which covered everything from losing my virginity to how I ended up in Morrison's cafe with the scorer of one of the greatest goals in Leeds United history, and includes records by the likes of The Fall and Slade - you can listen to it here for a few days:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p019rgm5

Friday, 31 May 2013

I'll be reading from The Last Champions and talking about the book, the charge to the 91-92 title and subsequent changes in football at Waterstone's in Leeds from 7pm on the evening of June 20. The event is free: you just need to call the store to reserve tickets. Hopefully it will be as successful as last year's launch, where LUFC's former commercial director/chairman Bill Fotherby came down to share even more eyebrow-raising and hilarious stories that aren't in the book.

Thursday, 9 May 2013

Alex Ferguson's achievements speak for themselves, but Howard Wilkinson's triumph against the odds in 1992 must not be forgotten... When I was researching The Last Champions, I wanted to know precisely what those odds were and, among other things, unearthed these extraordinary stats.

TRANSFER FEES OF PLAYERS FEATURING IN THE TWO LEAGUE FIXTURES BETWEEN
LEEDS UNITED AND MANCHESTER UNITED, 1991-92

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About Me

Dave Simpson is a Guardian journalist who writes mainly on music. His first book, The Fallen[www.thefallenbook.co.uk], was a monumental quest to track down everyone who had ever played in Mark E Smith's legendary band. He is now applying those same forensic and possibly certifiable skills to his football team, Leeds United. Living in Yorkshire, he has supported Leeds since the early 1970s, man and boy, which has brought about a small amount of pleasure and a great amount of pain. He also wrote for the LeedsLeedsLeeds magazine which documented United's rise and mostly fall from 1998 to 2011.